VOCABULARY
SHORT STORIES
LITERARY TERMS
ENGLISH REVIEW
ENGLISH REVIEW 2
100

What part of speech is PRETTY?

ADJECTIVE

100

What is where a story takes place?

SETTING

100

A direct comparison with an object.

EX: The warm summer day was a blanket to our skin after such long, dark, and cold winter months.

METAPHOR

WHAT DOES IT MEAN????

100

What is the noun that is doing the action in a sentence?

SUBJECT

100

What are details that you can see, hear, feel, smell, or taste?

Sensory Details

200

What does IOTA mean?

a very small part or quantity

200

What does TONE mean?

the author's attitude in a story

200

A word used to describe an extreme exaggeration.

EX: There were hundreds of thoughts going through my head, so I had to take a deep breath, and just try to do my best.

HYPERBOLE

WHAT DOES IT MEAN????

200

A word that describes or modifies a noun 

ADJECTIVE

200

A word that has the same meaning.

SYNONYM

300

What is an antonym?

The opposite of a word.

300

What is the main message or takeaway of a story?

THEME

300

IDENTIFY THE LITERARY TECHNIQUE:

Ex: The moon winked at me as it twinkled in the sky.

PERSONIFICATION

WHAT DOES IT MEAN????

300

A word that describes or modifies a verb

ADVERB 

300
A story written about someone's life.

BIOGRAPHY

400

This word is when author's give human characteristics to something nonhuman.

What is personification?

400

What is the end of a story called on the plot diagram?

RESOLUTION

400

What word is a comparison that uses like or as?

Ex: My best friend is like a vault. I can trust them with anything and know she won't tell a soul.

SIMILE

WHAT DOES IT MEAN????

400

List at least one FIRST PERSON PRONOUN

I, ME, OR MY

400

 Words taken from text to support an idea.

TEXT EVIDENCE

500
What is the word to describe the way a word sounds?

What is an onomatopoeia? 

500

How many parts are on the plot diagram?

5 (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution). 

500

Identify the literary technique:

Ex: I'm so hungry that I could eat a horse.

HYPERBOLE

WHAT DOES IT MEAN????

500

A story that has made up characters and events.

FICTION

500

What is a guess of what happened or will happen based on your background knowledge and text evidence? 

Inference